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A memorial garden outside Oceanside’s Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center, installed last year, serves as a reminder of the Holocaust.

Oceanside community dedicated to remembering the Holocaust

“There’s an expression, L’dor va’dor, and it means ‘From generation to generation,’” said Joan Goldfaden, who has worked at the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center for nearly 25 years and represents the JCC on the Jewish Community Council of Oceanside. more

By Ben Strack | 4/20/17

Joni Center, director of the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center, left, and Assemblywoman Melissa Miller, center, with honorees Jessica Becak, Rachel Charney, Cori Caporimo, Penny Ellis and Maria Heller at a Purim Gala on March 12.

Friedberg JCC honors ‘Queen Esthers’ at Purim Gala

The Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center honored this year’s “Queen Esthers” at a Purim Gala held at Temple Avodah on March 12. more

By Ben Strack | 3/21/17

Rabbi Barry Dov Schwartz, center, joined County Executive Ed Mangano and Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter at a news conference on Feb. 28 after the most recent wave of bomb threats.

County, state seek further protection for Jewish Community Centers

After a bomb threat called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation. more

By Ben Strack and Mike Smollins | 3/8/17

NCPD: Patrols intensified around county's religious institutions

After a bomb threat was called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation. more

By Ben Strack | 3/7/17

Imani Northington played with her friends near the shuffleboard table after school. The community center’s directors see it as a place where parents can rest assured their children are in a safe, supervised space while they are at work.

A place where ‘can’t’ is not a word

“I can’t do it,” said one of the dance students as she struggled to learn a new routine. “What is that? ‘I can’t’,” her instructor Tjuana Evans shot back. “There’s no such … more

By Peter Belfiore | 2/23/17

This is the second year the dancers have performed at a Molloy halftime show. They were invited back after being well received the first time according to coach Tijuana Evans.

MLK Center dancers perform at Molloy halftime

The Dance Empress Studios dancers returned to the court to perform a halftime show for the Molloy men’s basketball team on Saturday. Based out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in … more

By Peter Belfiore | 2/8/17

Sekona Dixon, front, and Maurice Reid showed off some self-defense karate moves.

MLK Day celebrated at Center

“Okay, one, two, three, dream!” said the photographer as he snapped a shot of the children lined up at the head of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center on Jan. 16. This was the … more

By Peter Belfiore | 1/18/17

Mangano offers new budget to NIFA

Nonprofit social-service agencies like the Five Towns Community Center were facing steep funding cuts by Nassau County as late as Monday night. more

By Erik Hawkins and Mary Malloy | 12/7/16

St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church of Merrick wants to expand with a new community center for religious education classes and recreational activities, according to the Rev. Nikiforos Fakinos, the church’s pastor.

St. Demetrios Church seeks community center

Ever since St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church moved from Freeport to Hewlett Avenue in Merrick in 1982, parishioners there have dreamed of constructing a community center where they could hold Greek language, culture and religious classes, said the Rev. Nikiforos Fakinos, St. Demetrios’s pastor. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/3/16

Eugene Boening used shoots from four banana trees to grow 12 more. He stores and nurtures them in the maintenance garage at the pool during the winter.

Green thumb works his magic

Inside the maintenance garage at the village pool facility, there’s a row of banana trees next to shelves of equipment, hibernating for the winter. There were originally four, but thanks to the expertise and efforts of village employee Eugene Boening, 16 trees will grace the pool’s perimeter this summer. more

By Micah Danney | 3/16/16

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